Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1915 — DIAMOND NOTES [ARTICLE]

DIAMOND NOTES

Line you never see: ’Batted for Cobb in the ninth inning. The fine work of the Cardinals has enthused the fans of St. Louis. Just at present the Dodgers are doing great work in the National league. Manager Tinker is beginning to doubt if he really has a reversible outfield. • * * George Zabel has a fast side arm curve ball that he uses only in a pinch. Jake Stahl denies the rumor that he is to become manager of the Boston Red Sox. Johnny Evers has bought some stock in the Troy club of the New York league. • • • Emil Huhn, now the first baseman of the Newark Feds, is called “Hunnie” for a nickname. • • • Cy Falkenberg pitched his first game against Eddie Plahk since the two were rivals in the American league. Cy won, 4 to 3. • • * Whenever the Cleveland club suffers a slump the manager is fired, and right away they begin to win. Other teams might copy. • • * Schang, Sweeney, Schalk and other catchers are blocking players off the home plate, but they are running a 'fearful risk every time they do it. e e e Manager Griffith of the Washington club threatens a wholesale shakeup in his team if the Senators don’t face about and show improvement. • • • Al Demaree, the former pitcher, now with Philadelphia, is conducting a column as well as drawing cartoons this year. His work appears in a Philadelphia paper each evening. •• • t The Cardinals have signed Roger Hornsby, the fast shortstop of the Dennison (Tex.) team. He is the first man to be grabbed from the minors this year by a major league team.* Weiser, who is playing center field for the Phillies, while Paskert is filling in at first, is only a youngster and 'comes from Charlotte, N. C. ( team, where he led the league last year in hitting. .• • * Eastern critics said the Cubs did not look a bit stronger this year than they did last, before they had a chance to watch them perform. Now they agree that they area very much Im- ■